July 25th, 2019 1 KYLE GREGORY OLSON Doctoral Candidate Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 3260 South Street, Room 325, Philadelphia, PA 19104 [email protected] http://www.olsonkg.com Education University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dissertation: Community and Polity Organization in Bronze Age Northeastern Iran Committee: Dr. Lauren Ristvet (Chair), Dr. Holly Pittman, Dr. Megan C. Kassabaum Ohio State University – Columbus, Ohio B.A. in Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, June 2012 Advisors: Dr. Joy McCorriston & Dr. Margaret Mills Research Interests Bronze Age Archaeology of Iran and Central Asia; Legacy Data Rehabilitation; Digital Survey Methods; Spatial Analysis; Political Geography; Archaeology as Cultural Diplomacy; Academic Podcasting Publications in Refereed Journals (In Revision) Olson, K.G. & Thornton, C.P. Tureng Tepe, a Bronze Age Center in Northeastern Iran Revisited (The Wulsin Excavations, 1931). Iran: Journal of the BIPS (In Press) Figurines and Identity in Bronze Age Iran: An analysis of adornment, context, and use at Tureng Tepe. Archäologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran und Turan 2018 Olson, K.G. & Rouse, L.M. A Practical Guide to Meso-Scale Survey with Quadrotor UAV Systems. Advances in Archaeological Practice doi.org/10.1017/aap.2018.26 2011 Moritz, M. Giblin, J. Ciccone, M. Davis, A. Fuhrman, J. Kimiaie, M. Madzsar, S. Olson, K. Senn, M. Social Risk Management Strategies in Pastoral Systems: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Cross-Cultural Research doi.org/10.1177%2F1069397111402464 Appointments and Fellowships 2016-present Junior Fellow, Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 2015 Critical Language Scholarship. Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan 2013-2018 Benjamin Franklin Graduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania July 25th, 2019 2 2012 Critical Language Scholarship. Vladimir, Russian Federation 2010 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF- REU), Körös Regional Archaeological Project (NSF OISE 1030436) Research Grants 2018 University of Pennsylvania Museum Director’s Field Fund Research Grant ($7500) 2017 American Institute of Iranian Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship ($7320) 2015 University of Pennsylvania Museum Summer Research Grant ($1200) 2015 Graduate Program in Anthropology Summer Field Funding ($1900) 2014 University of Pennsylvania Museum Summer Research Grant ($1500) 2014 Graduate Program in Anthropology Summer Field Funding ($1000) 2011 OSU Arts & Sciences Autumn Undergraduate Research Scholarship ($1000) 2011 OSU Arts & Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarship ($7000) 2011 OSU Undergraduate Research Office Summer Research Fellowship ($3500) 2011 Elizabeth Kiss Amstutz Humanities Merit Scholarship ($1000) Travel Awards 2016, 2018-19 University of Pennsylvania SAS Dean’s Spring Conference Travel Subvention 2016-17 University of Pennsylvania SAS Dean’s Autumn Conference Travel Subvention 2017 University of Pennsylvania GAPSA Travel Grant 2016 University of Pennsylvania SASGov Travel Grant 2015 University of Pennsylvania President Gutmann Leadership Travel Award 2011 OSU Undergraduate Student Government Spring Academic Enrichment Grant 2010-11 OSU Social & Behavioral Sciences Spring Undergraduate Research Grant 2010-11 OSU Social & Behavioral Sciences Autumn Undergraduate Research Grant National and International Conference Presentations 2019 A. Buffington, K. Olson, J. Roe, A. Al Kathiri, J. McCorriston. Survey Results and Preliminary Spatial Analysis of the 2018 Season of the Ancient Socio-Ecological Systems in Oman (ASOM) Project. Seminar for Arabian Studies. July 13th 2019 Permits, Partage, and Persepolis: legal infrastructure and the value of heritage in early 20th century Iran. Semiotic Anthropology Conference. May 3rd 2019 Combating the Curation Crisis Through Dissertation Research: An Argument for Disciplinary Valorization and Financial Support of Legacy Collection Rehabilitation. Society for American Archaeology Conference. April 14th. 2018 Legacy Data and Ceramic Chronologies: The Case of the Gorgan Plain, Northeastern Iran. Society for American Archaeology Conference. April 12th 2018 FETE-LCA: Supercomputer simulations of trade routes in the ancient Near East. International Congress on the Archaeology of Ancient Near East. April 6th July 25th, 2019 3 2018 K. Olson, D. Arispe-Bazán, N. Sadegh-Samimi & A. Shankar. “Anthropological Airwaves” Multimodal Installation. American Ethnological Society/Society for Visual Anthropology Joint Conference “Resemblances”. March 23rd 2017 N. Sadegh-Samimi & K. Olson. Everyone Tells me how they hate the sound of their own voice: The ethics of editing in podcasts. Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. December 1st 2017 Commercial Routes and Pilgrims' Tracks: landscapes of movement in Iranian Khorasan. 5th Eurasian Archaeology Conference. October 28th 2017 Formation and Transformation of Communities in Prehistoric Khorasan. Society for American Archaeology Conference. April 1st 2016 Three Narratives, Three Approaches: Trade, Exchange, and Interaction in Third Millennium Iran. American Schools of Oriental Research Meeting. November 18th 2016 Archaeological Semiotics beyond icons, indexes and symbols: habits and encounters. Semiotic Anthropology Conference. May 6th 2016 The Political Economy of Qalas and Canals in Greater Khorasan. Annual Society for American Archaeology Conference. April 9th ت آر�ﺎ�ﺎن را ﻻزم ﻧﺪار�ﻢ: ﺗﻮﺿﯿﺢ پﺪ�ﺪە ی ﺳﻔﺎل ﺧﺎ�ﺴﺘﺎری داﻏﺪار ﻫﺰارە ﺳﻮم در ﺷﻤﺎل ش�� ا ﯾ ﺮا ن . 2015 International Congress of Young Archaeologists. October 12th 2015 No Aryans Needed: Toward Explaining the Distribution of Burnished Grey Ware Ceramics of the Third Millennium in Northeastern Iran. Society for American Archaeology Conference. April 19th 2014 Material Encounters with Cultural Activities: Anthropomorphic Figurines and Figural Semiosis in ancient Iran. Semiotic Anthropology Conference. April 5th 2013 The Opening of Iranian-American Archaeological Collaboration: The 1931 Wulsin Expedition. International Congress of Young Archaeologists. October 29th 2013 C.P. Thornton, K. Olson, & N. Bayani. The Bronze Age of Northeastern Iran: View from the Frontier. Society for American Archaeology Conference. April 5th 2012 Revisiting Tureng Tepe: A new look at an old excavation in northeastern Iran. Society for American Archaeology Conference. April 20th 2011 The Figurines of Tureng Tepe: A Morphological, Stylistic, and Contextual Analysis. Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference. September 17th Student Symposia 2016 Material Culture, Exchange, and Social Groups: Reflections upon the Mediation of Communities. Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Symposium. February 26th 2016 What Makes a Fetish a Fetish: On the Materiality and Agency of Things. TemPennTon Graduate Anthropology Conference. February 19th 2014 Reconstructing Social Identities in the Ancient Near East: The Cultural Motion of Images of Personhood. Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Symposium. December 6th 2014 Archaeological Visibility of Commoners and Elites in Prehistory. Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Symposium. March 8th July 25th, 2019 4 2011 The Terracotta Ladies and Gentlemen of Tureng Tepe, northeastern Iran. Undergraduate Research Office and Ohio State Libraries Fall Student Poster Forum, Thompson Library, Ohio State University. October 14th 2011 The Prehistoric Figurines of Turkmenistan: A Proposed Synthetic Methodology. Annual Research Poster Day, Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University. May 20th 2011 Analysis of Occupation Layers at the Neolithic Szeghalom-Kovácshalom. The Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, Ohio State University. May 11th 2010 Carmichael, K., Clark, A., Kough, M., Lipphardt, J., Moritz, M., Olson, K., Rayo., M, Reilly-Sanders, E., and Ulmer, G. Go Shush Yourself: Student Habitus at the New Thompson Library,” Presented to Carol Diedrichs, Director of the Ohio State University Libraries. December 8th Publications in Conference Proceedings, Non-Refereed Journals, Invited Translations & Blogs 2017 A Pioneer in Iran. Historier från Samlingarna http://samlingar.varldskulturmuseerna.se/a-pioneer-in-iran/ 2015 Trekking in Transoxiana. Penn Museum Blog https://www.penn.museum/blog/research/student-fieldwork/trekking-in- transoxiana-my-journey-to-central-asia-and-beyond-kyle-olson/ 2014 Reintroducing Tureng Tepe and the Wulsins's Terracotta Ladies and Gentlemen. Proceedings of the International Conference of Young Archaeologists, University of Tehran, October 2013. Kharanaghi, M.H.A., Khanipour, M., & Naseri, R., (eds.), pp. 41-50. Tehran: University of Tehran Publishers 2014 Survey Methodology in the Şərur Plain. Penn Museum Blog https://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/survey-methodology-in-the- s%C9%99rur-plain/ 2013 Hozhabri, A. & Olson, K.G. Investigation into the Mudbrick Architectural Units at Ecbatana – Hamadan. Iranian Archaeology 4: 111-120 (Translator) 2013 Conference Report. Iranian Archaeology 4: 120-122 Campus, Departmental, and Public Talks 2019 The Penn Museum in Iran: an archaeological history. “Shab-Ahang”: The Iranian Cultural Society of America. March 1st 2017 Prehistoric Communities, Polities, and Trade: a view from Greater Khorasan. The Annual Kolb Society of Fellows Spring Colloquium. April 27th 2017 Introducing SUNSPOT for Archaeological Research. Presented in “Introduction to Digital Methods in Archaeology,” (Instructor: Dr. Peter Cobb). March 28th 2016 Understanding